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Saturday, February 14, 2009

We Shoot... We Score

I've never been to a really big sporting event live; however, that will change next month. We just received our tickets to the 1st and 2nd round games of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament that will be held in Boise March 20-22:

[Edit 2305 15 Feb: Redacted photo of tickets due to concerns mentioned in the comments that someone could copy them and render our ticket invalid.]

I'm way psyched; in my opinion, March Madness is the best annual sporting tournament in the world. In order to get the right to buy these tickets (for $61 for each person for each session, plus fees) we had to buy season tickets for last season's BSU Men's BB season. It was totally worth it.

14 Comments:

Anonymous said...

The Masters golf tournament. I believe it's one of the toughest events to get to without breaking the bank. Fortunately my grandparents have gotten tickets since before it became so sought after. May not have the opportunity again unfortunately.

But getting tix to the first 2 rounds of march madness is pretty nice. I think those first two days are the most exciting days in sports.

Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994, NCAA Regionals in Rupp Arena in 1996, ACC Basketball Tournament in 2003, Duke-UNC in Cameron 2008/2009. The joys of having shore duty allow one to take in good sporting events.

I work for Churchill Downs as a temporary employee for that week. Not only do they pay me, but I get a credential that allows me to go nearly anywhere on the track I want to go - including the racetrack itself.

I mostly work in the press box, but I sometimes watch the race from the rooftop.

Other than going to Army-Navy, I'd have to say the 2000 Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis. (Most of your readers won't find that at all interesting, but I enjoyed the meet.) I got to be down on deck watching the first American to break 15:00 in the 1500 free.

198?? AFC Champ Game, Dan Fouts and the San Diego Chargers in San Diego vs the slimeball Oakland Raiders, featuring the cheater Ray Guy and his "stick-um". Chargers lost and the raiders beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl.

Also went to the Saturday round of the PGA at Southern Hills in Tulsa. I've seen Tiger at Torrey Pines lots of times, but to see him win a major was pretty special.

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I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)